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Videoblog: “Prima Donna”
Here it is… the final cut of Prima Donna, for which I designed and built costumes, did on-set makeup, and decorated the set alongside…
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Violence in America: The Teenage Menace vs the Teenage Martyr
It’s an understatement to say that the shooting of Trayvon Martin has raised tempers and stoked debate nationwide. Every question of violence, from the…
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Bookblog: Teenage Mystique + Entitlement = ??
I’d propose the answer is bullying, although the equation is of course not that simple. My private research has suffered a little recently as…
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Memetics, Schematics, and Cultural Genetics
Recently I came across a reference to memetics, which I had heard of and frankly dismissed as a conflation of the biological and cultural,…
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Self-Justification: Why People Do Crappy Things, Part 1
Cross-post with Eponymy’s Delight: In a recent post I offered a hypothetical example of a bullied teenager whose diagnosis of “mental disorder” absolves his…
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Thanksgiving…let’s be thankful we’re the best country in the world
It is commonly taught and widely believed that Thanksgiving is the anniversary of a feast between the Pilgrims, who landed at Plymouth Rock in…
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Thanksgiving, the Celebration of Consumerism and Cultural Dominance
I don’t meant to smash Thanksgiving as it means to a lot of people: a time for families and friends to gather and give…